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Show GERMANS' TAKE I FRENCH FORI I Maubeuge Falls and Enemv Takes 40,000 Prisoners In-" I eluding Four Generals. 400 GUNS CAPTURED German Onslaughts on First Class Fortress Continue for Over a Week. Berlin. Sept. 9 (By wireless to The Associated Press by way of Say Ville, Long Island ) Official an-nounrement an-nounrement was made today at army LLm headquarters that the French fort ress of .Maubeuge. on the Samhr rh-i rh-i er had fallen The Germans tOok 40.000 prisoners 1 Including four generals Four hun- VL , dred guns also were captured. Dr. Ludwig Frank, a prominent Socialist So-cialist member of the Reichstag, wis 1 killed September 3. during a charge j against the French ,it Lunevllle Prince Frederick William of Hesse I has been wounded ' I j .Maubeuge is a French fortress or the first class. It is situated in the. department Du Xord. ahont six miles from the Belgian frontier. The German onslaughts on thin position have been determined and judging from incomplete news reports I hoy lu'e been s;oing on for a wek or more. Dispatches from Ixmdon under date of September 5. said that iH part of the British expeditionary force jH in France was at .Maubeuge and as sisted the French garrison on its dc The German general staff announc ed in Berlin September '. tha' two of the Maubeuge forts had fallen and that the fire of the German artillery was on that date being directed against the town, which was n flames On the same day an official communication ilen out in Paris snld that Maub luge continued its resist- j French Announcement. A French offic.ul announcement, un tier date of September 7, referred to the French defense of Maubeuge as "The minister of war has telegraphed telegraph-ed to the governor of Maubeuge ex-ng ex-ng the government's admiration for the heroic defense and sayini; Viu stop at nothing to prolong resistance re-sistance until the hour of your ap-proaching ap-proaching deliverance, which I hope H soon.' iH "The commander in chief has p!ac ed the name of the governor of Mau beuge in the order of the day for his V splendid defense." if |